{"quotes":[{"text":"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["ayn-rand","good","goodness","john-galt","objectivism","truth"],"id":15685,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["ayn-rand","love","romance","romance-novels"],"id":24796,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man’s consciousness in action—the dance presents a stylized version of man’s body in action.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["art","ayn-rand","dance","music","style"],"id":37850,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word 'I,' could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["anthem","ayn-rand","freedom","individuality"],"id":41451,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.","author":"Don De Grazia","tags":["ayn-rand","noremorse","self","skin"],"id":110421,"author_id":"Don+De+Grazia"},{"text":"A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["art","ayn-rand","dance"],"id":115457,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["ayn-rand","individualism","libertarianism","objectivism","selfishness"],"id":121503,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.","author":"Ellen Kenner","tags":["ayn-rand","emotions","objectivism","relationships","romance","selfish"],"id":127365,"author_id":"Ellen+Kenner"},{"text":"I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["atlas-shrugged","ayn-rand","galt","objectivism","philosophy","taggart"],"id":130631,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["anthem","ayn-rand","individuality"],"id":135058,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}